Unseen

"We are watching you"-- October 2012: a video goes viral on Youtube in which a girl uses flash cards to tell her story — it is the last time she is seen by the world and millions of people since then will forever know her name: Amanda Todd. It will take a mother’s courage and determination to dive into the dark web to finally unveil her daughter's real killer, and to ensure justice for all the oth...

This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/UNSEEN and get on your way to being your best self.-- "I hope you don’t sleep at night. I hope you have dreams of us coming after you."-- It's 1978, and Ron Jenkins, a detective with the Huntington police department, suddenly straightens up on his couch at home, unable to look away from the TV. The popular "Dating G...

"There’s something wrong, there’s something really wrong here" -- On March 19th, 2018, 91 year old Mary Bartel is getting ready for her aerobics class, when she hears a loud knock at the door. On the other side, in an innocent looking disguise, is one of the most prolific serial killers in all of Texas history. As Mary unknowingly greets him, she must now fight for her survival and try to remember...

“Do you think this is a game?”-- On July 25th, 2016 Aundreah Maes has just finished her shift at the mall in Salem Oregon, when a man armed with a handgun forces his way into her car and tells her to start driving. This man, a cop-in-training named Edwin Lara, is wanted for the disappearance of a young woman, Kaylee Sawyer, in Bend Oregon and is now on the run, killing and car-jacking anyone in hi...

“Take me instead”-- On November 14th, 1974, Barbara Mabee Abel returns home with her 6-year-old son, Dale, but upon entering, something feels terribly wrong; moments later, an intruder emerges from hiding after waiting for the young family to arrive. Willing to do anything to save her son and herself, Barbara begs the man to kidnap her – what she doesn't know is that she’s been taken by one of mos...

“He was chopping it up. That was sketchy.”-- On November 16th, 2012, 13 year-old Megan Zanella witnesses her mother being attacked by her foster sister, Sabrina Zunich. Tragically, the police arrive too late to save Megan’s mother, Lisa Knoefel, and Sabrina is apprehended at the scene. However, in the subsequent investigation and trial, Megan and the police come to understand that nothing is as it...

“Come quickly because I’m afraid.”-- On September 20th, 2013 9 yo Andrew Hockensmith frantically calls 911 from the back room of his parents' pawnshop, where an armed gunman has just stormed in. In spite of the danger, the boy only cares about saving his baby sister and urges the dispatcher to hurry and send help. Just 6 minutes later, police enter the pawn shop and are horrified to find 3 bodies....

“One day, I kissed my 6 year old son goodbye, and never saw him again”-- John Walsh never wanted to be a man hunter. In 1981, he was forced to look for his missing son only to find him dead. When 47 year old Ed Smart appeared on national TV pleading for the return of his 14 year old daughter, John took the weight of the investigation through America’s Most Wanted. This is what you haven’t seen on...

“Am I scaring you little girl?”-- 8-year-old Jennifer is scared of the dark, and on the one night her mother asks her to sleep in her own room, she wakes up in the arms of a police officer carrying her out of the house in the middle of the night. The man wants her to believe that she is safe, but she realizes he doesn't have a badge as he drives off to a remote area. Later that night, her kidnappe...

“I think he’s trying to lure me somewhere”-- On October 19th, 2018, a strange man is seen lurking around a college campus, hiding his identity under a Deadpool costume. The same day, 21 year old Lauren McCluskey calls the police to report threatening text messages harassing her and inviting her to a supposed funeral. The young student is doing everything she can to try and get help, but no one is...

"Did you hurt him?" -- February 2013: Dr Phil is sitting with one of his guests backstage, Mark Redwine, who appeared on the show with his oldest son Corey ,and ex-wife Elaine Hall, in an effort to find his the youngest boy Dylan, who has been missing for the past three months. Mark was the last person to see Dylan, and yet, on Dr Phil’s set, he has no answers to any of Elaine or Dr Phil's questio...

“Are the little kids asleep?”-- March 11th 2017 – 14 year old Arden Summers drives her younger siblings back to her mother’s home, following her dad’s secret orders. Hours later, an employee of a nearby Walgreens calls 911 after seeing a tied up woman run out of a car: the woman is Alisa Mathewson – Arden’s mom. Before the police can arrive, the car drives away with Alisa. Nobody knows where they...

“She hung on for me, her girls, and for justice” -- August 2nd, 2015, Gahanna police receive a frantic 911 call from a Speedway gas station, that a woman is set on fire. As she is rushed to the ER, her boyfriend tells a bizarre story that she caught on fire while lighting a cigarette. No one expects her to survive, with a 110% mortality rate, but 7 months later, she miraculously wakes up. Only she...

“I hid so he wouldn’t see me.” -- March 7th 2014, the bodies of a young couple Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson are discovered behind a convenient store dumpster, Port Bolivar, Texas. With very little clue of when and where the murder happened, the police visit their fathers, who have been both furiously against their relationship. Both struck by the news and dissolved in tears, could one of them...

#Sayhername -- It’s 9:30 PM on July 22, 2018, when 18-year-old Nia Wilson is on her way home with her 2 older sisters at MacArthur BART station, but none of them are aware that a man has been following them. The images that were caught on the train’s CCTV will spark outrage in the US, and start a family’s journey of putting a killer behind bars and making sure everyone remembers the life of Nia. C...

"Could you kill someone with horse tranquilizer?" -- March 23, 1993. Haylei Jordan is 8 when her mom asks her if she wants to leave everything behind. The little girl doesn't realize that her mother has just cut off her ankle monitor and wants to take her daughter on the run. March 18, 2002. Almost a decade later, Haylei is faced with another terrible decision after years of turbulence and uncerta...

“Mama, don’t leave me here” -- On May 12th, 2003, 13-year-old Tyler Edmonds walks into the police station in Starkville, Mississippi with his mother, but as soon as he arrives, cops separate mother and son, and bring Tyler to an interrogation room, alone. He doesn’t know this yet, but his own big sister has named him as the murderer of her husband, Joey Fulgham. Alone, confused, and scared, Tyler...

“Could you untie me please?” -- It’s the early hours of June 7th, 1995. Detective Bill Lindsey is carefully taking pictures of a crime scene with two dead bodies, 34-year-old Mary Phillips, and her 11-year-old daughter Lacey. After having photographed the young mother in her office, he turns to the little girl on the chair, head down and covered in blood, but something unexpected happens: when his...

“Why did you lie to me?” -- January 15th, 1974, 15-year-old Charlie Otero is dropped off at school by his dad just as every other day, but only a few hours later, he would come home to unimaginable horror: his family was the first target of the BTK killer. With no evidence on who did this, nightmares follow Charlie as he fears for his own safety, while the BTK attacks more and more people. It woul...

“I can't die – I have to save my girls” -- At 11:05 AM, on the 31st of January 2004, a 911 operator answered the phone to a woman breathing heavily, but not saying anything. Another call comes through, and this time an address is given, but when the police arrive at the scene, they only find an empty handgun case, sweatpants, and a large red stain on the carpet. With time running out, and just a f...

March 17th, 2017: a woman calls 911 in Michigan after hearing strange noises from across the street. As she steps outside to see what’s going on, her neighbor cries out so loudly that the operator can hear it on the other end of the line. May 28th, 2022, Five years later, two calls come into 911 in Florida - a woman is frantically alerting the authorities that something strange is happening across...

“I can’t just let him kill me” -- July 7th, 2009: Nancy Tyler, handcuffed to a wall, knows that the stand-off between the police and her ex-husband can’t go on. The mother of two is left alone by her captor for the first time in 12 hours, and this is her final opportunity to escape her hostage situation before he snaps again. External Footage from: "Domestic Violence Survivor Speaks 10 Years After...

"Is he going to kill us?" -- On the early morning of December 4th, 1997, 10 year old Amber Daniels is standing in the middle of a dirt road, barefoot, in her pyjamas, faced with an impossible choice: run away on her own from the man who kidnapped her, or stay with him to try and save her sisters. What happened to her family the previous night, now known as the Santa Claus killings, would only be s...

“She doesn’t know what’s coming, but we do” -- It’s just after midnight on July 9th, 2011 when a CCTV camera of the Leili home captures Niqué, completely unaware that this would become her last known footage before her disappearance. Niqué’s 19-year-old daughter Alex is quickly suspicious of her step-dad Matthew, but her younger half-sisters, Amanda and Rebecca, firmly believe their dad is doing e...

“Mommy told me bad guys killed my daddy” -- April 6th, 2010, 5 YO Patrick Morrissey wakes up in the middle of the night. He sees his parents being pushed inside his bedroom by a gunman. In those few panicked seconds, he notices both of them are tied up. Petrified by fear, Patrick can’t move and keeps his eyes tightly shut. Suddenly, shots are fired and the house is set alight. The little boy knows...